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- 24/7/2010
Your might
not know much about freewares or "open source
movement", but you must know "Linux"
and "internet".
Many programmers have
contributed their work
freely to
other
people for not even a few words of appreciation under "GPL" (General Public Licence). In
the world of art and design, some artists are doing the same things;
they offer their works to the public free of charge under "creative common licence." They make
the world
more beautiful. Don't think that what they offer is irrelevant.
The backbone of interenet is built on the basis of freewares like Unix,
Linux and Apache. To know more about their
world and philosophy ,
click the above icon to enter our "freestuff"
page.
Since 2006, we started to make
our contribution to the
community of free culture by building up our own free sharing sites
including:
<blog.um-gallery.com>,
<imagebank.um-gallery.com>
and
<videoworks.um-gallery.net>
Our creative works are offered
to the
general public at no cost on these sites.
Knowledge and imaging are our specialties so we offer them as a
documentary record witnessing the development of our world. At the end
of 2007, we built an unofficial site voluntarily for Hunghom Commercial
Centre where our company located. The site <http://hhcc.um-gallery.com>
has been serving as a plateform for communication among all owners and
tenants and a provisional information centre for customers. The latest
site we
build is <https://www.um-gallery.com/essence/>,
which hosts carefully selected ancient chinese books in the public
domain for the reference of youngsters and chinese culture lovers.
We would like to
demonstrate that
free culture is not
contradictory to the intellectual property right and private ownership
which have been abused and dirverted to a wrong direction adverse to
the interest of the general public. Our philosophy and rationale are
summaried in a number of essay written by our colleagues. To learn how
we think, click the following URLs which link you to their
corresponding
essays telling the philosophy behind our actions:
《Introduction
to Freeware:》
<https://www.um-gallery.com/blog/unofficial_release_intro2freeware.html>
《Free Art:》
<https://www.um-gallery.com/blog/unofficial_release_freeart.html>
《Art
without Boundary》:
<https://www.um-gallery.com/blog/unofficial_release_art_wo_boundary.html>
《Opinion on
the Review of Copyright Ordinance 2007》
<https://www.um-gallery.com/blog/unofficial_release_opinion_n_ip070730.html>
《Opinion on
the Amendment to the Copyright Ordinance 2010》
<https://www.um-gallery.com/blog/unofficial_release_submission_copyright100302.html>
金錢又豈是
一切, 很多默默運行著的軟件, 原是來自一些無私學者和程式編寫員的無償貢
獻, 莫以為那些都是無關重要的爛貨,
如今用作構築互聯網骨幹的操作系統和伺服器程式, 大部份都是這些自由軟件.從事藝術創作的工作者，亦同樣向公眾無嘗發放作品，令世界變得更美麗。
登入我們的 "freestuff" 網頁, 嘗試接觸他們的世界和想法.
自2006年起，我們以實際行動回饋社會作為參與推
廣自由分享文化的其中一分力量，我們以本身原創作品建立:
<https://www.um-gallery.com/blog/>
<https://www.um-gallery.com/imagebank/>
及
<https://www.um-gallery.com/videoworks/>
等三個分享網站，2007年底義務為公司所在之商廈建s立一非官方網站
<https://www.um-gallery.com/hhcc/>,
2010年初，再為中小學生及國學愛好者建立一古籍之網上文庫-
《含英咀華國學文存》＜https://www.um-gallery.com/essence/>
為保存推廣中國公共領域遺產盡一點綿力. 我們希望以事實證明自由分享文化跟商業活動並無不可
兼容之矛盾，很多時，將知識產權無限放大延伸，無非是先進企業打擊後進企業的手段，欲理解我們的想法，可點擊以上超連結登入有關網頁：
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